Planning 2017

The family calendar!

Every morning when I am eating breakfast with my beautiful toddler, I scribble out a daily to-do list on a scrap of notebook paper. I have been loosely planning what will go on my family calendar for 2017. I say that like its just a normal thing I do every year. It isn't. I love celebration and I hope to grow in it this year. I feel that I missed too many opportunities by not planning them early enough. I was not able to pick apples because I was too late. (Apparently, if you wait till mid October there is a chance the BEARS will get to them before you?!). I am also hoping to attend 1 or 2 RV shows, and I missed a few this year by finding out too late.

The calendar will include planting dates for next year, birthdays, scheduled vacations, weight loss goals and perhaps even blogging goals, if I decide I really want to do this.

I am interested in implementing a series of meaningful celebrations into our family rhythm. I will fill you in as I plan them. I am basing them on the book Family Celebrations by Ann Hibbard. We will start next month with my daughter's birthday flag! I am also hoping to use something like this: The Christian Year. I love the idea of minimizing "Ordinary Time."

I've been reading 5 Love Languages and realizing how much time means to me. I think a lot about time and how to spend it. I love to think about our family schedule and there is nothing more exciting that the potential of FREE TIME! Ahhhhh. Joy.

One way I've been spending it is at The Conference for Moms! Great free resource. Loved it and have found it really useful. I encourage you to put it on your 2017 calendar.

Day 2! I'm proud.